Al-Mu’taz Billah Ibrahim

ReporterAbducted by armed groupKilled on 4 May 2014

A 21-year-old reporter from near Aleppo, Al-Mu’taz Billah Ibrahim worked in Raqqa for Shaam News Network (SNN), which is a group of Syrian activists created in March 2011 to cover the situation in Syria.

Members of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) executed Al-Mu’taz Billah Ibrahim on 4 May after holding him hostage and torturing him for two months. According to activist sources, he was executed because of his media activities.